I have not had a car nicked my self yet touch wood, but back in 2005 my aunty had a mint 1991 cavalier 1.8, with 24k on the clock from new, nought it for £500 off an old guy who had never driven it over 60 mph. got it back to hers, parked it on the drive and put her fiesta across the top of the drive, she woke up the following morning to find the thieving cunts had broke into the fiesta to move it forwards to get the cavalier out, she had not had chance to even insure it as we got it back to hers at like 8 at night, we called the police and just decided she was gonna cut her losses straight away,4 days later a guy pulled up at the taxi office i worked in to try and sell some knocked off junk to the taxi drivers, when i walked out side there was my auntys cavalier with the thieves girlfriend in the passenger seat two kids in child seats in the back so i quizzed him straight away to where he got the car his reply was "i swiped it off some dopey tarts drive" then he laughed, I seen red andf dropped hime there and then, one of the taxi drivers knew about my auntys car being nicked and realised what was happening, he had a mazda mini bus so promptly moved it right up against the cavaliers bumper so it was boxed in, then got the police up (surprisingly theyu were there in less than two minutes) when the police got the thieves family etc out of the car we discovered he had wired in a new cd player fitted his own subwoofers in the boot also had a boot load of shopping and had even replaced a damaged tyre at kwik fit and left the reciept in the car. fucking cheeky bastard must have thought he would just get away with keeping it lol. my aunty came and collected the car, i grabbed another steering colum from the scrappy put it all back together, she got insured for an agreed £900 some how two days later it got petrol bombed on the drive, she got the full £900 payout so was happy enough. I seen the thief a few weeks later so me a nd a mate geve him a bloody good pasting and actually sburned his chin slightly with a lighter to show him how painful flames are and what could have happened to my scousins and aunty etc if the fire brigade never pput the fire out so quick on her car. anyway the cheeky bastard had the cheek to go to the police and had us arrested for assault etc but luckily the police were quite understanding with the facts of why we did what we did to him and released us without charge. fucking dirty crack heads think they can take what they like